Matthew 25:13

From Textus Receptus

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• ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ 25:13 γρηγορεῖτε οὖν, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε τὴν ἡμέραν οὐδὲ τὴν ὥραν, ἐν ᾗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται.

(Textus Receptus, Novum Testamentum, Theodore Beza, 5th major edition. Geneva. 1598)

• Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

(King James Version, Pure Cambridge Edition 1900)

• Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, because, you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man is coming.

(King James Version 2016 Edition, 2016) - buy the revised and updated printed 2023 Edition New Testament here

Interlinear

Commentary

Erasmus

Quia nescitis diem nec horam) hococo repetunt greaci codices, quod superius addebatur, in qua filius hominis veniet ἐν ᾗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται. (1516)

Google translate:

Because you do not know the day or the hour) the Greek texts repeat what was added above, in which the Son of Man will come

Beza

Qua Filius hominis veniet ἐν ᾗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται. Haec non legit Vetus interpres, neque reperimus in tribus vetustis codicibus. (1598)

Google translate:

The old translation does not read this, nor do we find it in the three ancient codes.

Gavin McGrath

Matt. 25:13 “wherein the Son of man cometh” (TR & AV) {B}

Preliminary Remarks & Textual Discussion.

The First Matter. The UBS 4th revised edition (1993) makes reference to some Vulgate manuscripts that support the TR’s reading. Unfortunately it does not identify them beyond this general reference, and nor is this information given in other textual apparatuses I have. Once again, this shows the need for the creation of a high quality textual apparatus for the Latin textual tradition.

The Second Matter. Gregory refers to Matt. 25:13 twice in Migne. On one occasion this is contextually part of the wider passage of Matt. 25:1-13 (Migne 76:1118), and so I consider one can confidently say that Gregory’s Latin is here following the variant. But on the other occasion this is a citation of Matt. 25:13 that could be simply a reduced quote (Migne 75:792). Therefore I make no usage of this shorter citation (Migne 75:792) in my reference to Gregory following the variant (Migne 76:1118), infra.

Principal Textual Discussion.

At Matt. 25:13, the TR’s Greek, “en (in) e (which) o (the) Yios (Son) tou (-) anthropou (of man) erchetai (he cometh),” i.e., “wherein the Son of man cometh” (AV), in the wider words, “for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh” (AV), is supported by the majority Byzantine text e.g., Codices E 07 (8th century), F 09 (9th century), Gamma 036 (10th century); Minuscules 28 (11th century, Byzantine other than in Mark), 1006 (11th century, Byzantine other than in Revelation), 1505 (11th century, Byzantine in the Gospels), 2 (12th century), 180 (12th century, Byzantine other than in Acts), 1010 (12th century), 1292 (13th century, Byzantine outside of the General Epistles), and 1342 (13th / 14th century, Byzantine other than in Mark); and Lectionaries 2378 (11th century, twice in two different readings¹⁶⁶) and 1968 (1544 A.D., with abbreviation “anou” with a line on top for “anthro pou” twice in two different readings)¹⁶⁷. It is further found as Latin, “qua (in which) filius (the Son) hominis (of man) venturus est (‘about to come¹⁶⁸’ + ‘he is’ = will come),” i.e., “wherein the Son of man will come,” in the Latin Lectionary, Liber Comicus (7th to 9th centuries, Iberian Peninsula, Western Europe¹⁶⁹); and also in some Latin Vulgate manuscripts.

However, a variant omitting Greek, “en (in) e (which) o (the) Yios (Son) tou (-) anthropou (of man) erchetai (he cometh),” and thus reading simply, “for ye know neither the day nor the hour,” is a minority Byzantine reading found in A 02 (5th century, Byzantine in Gospels, Matt. 25:6b-28:20, Mark, Luke, John 1:1-6:50a; 8:52b-21:25), W 032 (5th century, which is Byzantine in Matt. 1-28; Luke 8:13-24:53), Sigma 042 (late 5th / 6th century), and X 033 (10th century); Minuscule 597 (13th century); and

Lectionary 127 (9th century). It is further found in Jerome’s Latin Vulgate (5th century), and old Latin Versions b (5th century), d (5th century), ff2 (5th century), h (5th century), f (6th century), q (6th / 7th century), aur (7th century), 1 (7th / 8th century), g1 (8th / 9th century), ff1 (10th / 11th century), and c (12th / 13th century); as well as the Book of Armagh (812 A.D.) and Sangallensis Latin Diatessaron (9th century). From the Latin support for this reading, it is manifested in the Clementine Vulgate (1592). It is also found in the ancient church Greek writers, Athanasius (d. 373) and Chrysostom (d. 407); the ancient church Greek writer, Origen (d. 254) in a Latin translation; ancient church Latin writers, Hilary (d. 367), Jerome (d. 420), and Augustine (d. 430); and the early mediaeval church Latin writer, Gregory the Great (d. 604).

There is no good textual argument against the representative Byzantine reading which thus must stand. The origins of the variant are conjectural.

Was the variant an accidental omission? Did a scribe have a manuscript that looked something like the following, with the words, neither “OIΔATE (ye know) THN (the) HMERAN (day) OUΔE (nor) THN (the) ωPAN (hour) EN (in) H (which) O (the) YIOC (Son) TOY (-) ANθPωΠOY (of man) EPXETAI (he cometh)”?

OIΔATETHNHMERANOUΔETHNωPAN

ENHOYIOCTOY ANθPωΠOYEPXETAI

Was the final “AI” of “EPXETAI (he cometh)” badly written, with the cross bar on the “A” either faint or very high, and the “I” so close to the “A” that it looked like an “N”; was the scribe prima facie looking at something like the following?

OIΔATETHNHMERANOUΔETHNωPAN

ENHOYIOCTOY ANθPωΠOYEPXETN

Did his eye then jump by ellipsis from the final “N” of “ωPAN (hour)” to what he took to be the “N” of the line beneath, and did he then keep writing, thus accidentally omitting, “EN (in) H (which) O (the) YIOC (Son) TOY (-) ANθPωΠOY (of man) EPXETAI (he cometh)”? Alas, the diligence of some scribes left something to be desired.

Was the variant a deliberate omission? Did a prunist scribe arrogantly consider that these words were “a pedantic addition,” unnecessary given that “Christ has already said” in Matt. 24:44, “be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the (o) Son (Yios) of man (anthropou) cometh (erchetai)”? “Professing” himself “to be wise” (Rom. 1:22), did he then deliberately prune away these words so as to produce what he took to be a “more energetic” reading?¹⁷⁰

The TR’s reading has strong support in the Greek as the majority Byzantine reading found in at least about 90% of Byzantine text manuscripts, against which there is no good textual argument. Indeed, it might be remarked that the similarity of terminology with Matt. 24:44 acts to echo the authenticity of this reading at Matt. 25:13 as being consistent with Christ’s words in Matthean Greek. It also enjoys further support from the Latin Lectionary, Liber Comicus, which is the oldest known Lectionary from the Iberian Peninsula of Western Europe (modern Spain and Portugal), and dated variously from the 7th to 9th centuries. However, the TR’s earliest known attestation is from early mediaeval times in either the 7th century (if one takes the earliest date given for Liber Comicus), or the 8th century (E 07, if one take a later date of the 8th or 9th century for Liber Comicus). While the variant has relatively weak support in the Greek, being found in about 10% or less of Byzantine text manuscripts; it nevertheless has the support of some ancient Greek manuscripts; the near monolithic support of the Latin textual tradition; and half a dozen ancient church writers in both the Greek and Latin.

We neo-Byzantine like to show a reading over time and through time, i.e., across time, but this ideal is not always attainable. This is one such case in point, and with the earliest attestation for the TR’s reading coming from early mediaeval times in either the 7th or 8th century, the rating must necessarily suffer, since with ancient support from one writer inside the closed class of sources, this reading would attract a high level “B” (in the range of 71-74%). Thus weighing up these factors, and bearing in mind the perpetual superiority of the master maxim, The Greek improves the Latin, on the system of rating textual readings A to E, I would give the TR’s reading at Matt. 25:13 a lower level “B” that it would otherwise have received, supra, i.e., the text of the TR is the correct reading and has a middling level of certainty. But if perchance, I should in the future receive information showing this reading in an ancient source inside the closed class of sources, then I am prepared to revise this rating in the upwards direction.

Textual History Outside the Closed Class of Three Witnesses.

Outside the closed class of sources the correct reading at Matt. 25:13, “wherein the Son of man cometh,” in the wider words, “for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh,” is found in Minuscules 700 (11th century, independent), 1243 (11th century, independent outside of the General Epistles), 1071 (12th century, independent), 1241 (12th century, independent in Gospels), and 579 (13th century, mixed text). It is also found in the Family 13 Manuscripts, which contain Minuscules 788 (11th century, independent text), 346 (12th century, independent), 543 (12th century, independent), 826 (12th century, independent), 828 (12th century, independent), 983 (12th century, independent), 13 (13th century, independent), et al. It is further found in a manuscript of the Syriac Palestinian Version; Ethiopic Version (the Takla Haymanot, c. 500); and some manuscripts of the Slavic Version. However, the variant omitting the words, “wherein the Son of man cometh,” and 435 so reading simply, “for ye know neither the day nor the hour,” is found in the two leading Alexandrian texts, Rome Vaticanus (4th century) and London Sinaiticus (4th century); as well as the leading representative of the Western text, Codex D 05 (5th century). It is also found in (the mixed text type) Codex C 04 (5th century), (the mixed text type) Codex L 019 (8th century), (the independent) Codex Delta 037 (9th century), and (the mixed text type) Codex Theta 038 (9th century). It is further found in Minuscules 33 (9th century, mixed text type), 565 (9th century, independent), 892 (9th century, mixed text type), 1424 (9th / 10th century, mixed text type in Matthew and Luke, independent in Mark, Byzantine elsewhere), 157 (12th century, independent), and 205 (15th century, independent in the Gospels & Revelation); as well as the Family 1 Manuscripts, which contain Minuscules 1 (12th century, independent text in the Gospels, Byzantine elsewhere), 1582 (12th century, independent Matt.-Jude), 209 (14th century, independent in the Gospels and Revelation, Byzantine elsewhere), et al. It is also found in the Syriac: Sinaitic (3rd / 4th century), Pesitto (first half 5th century), and Harclean h (616) Versions, as well as some manuscripts of the Syriac Palestinian Version; the Egyptian Coptic Sahidic (3rd century), Middle Egyptian (3rd century), and Bohairic (3rd century) Versions; the Armenian Version (5th century); Georgian Version (5th century); some manuscripts of the Slavic Version; Ciasca’s Latin-Arabic Diatessaron (Arabic 12th-14th centuries; Latin 19th century); and the Ethiopic Versions (Pell Platt, based on the Roman edition of Rome 1548-9; & Dillmann, 18th / 19th centuries).

At Matt. 25:13 the erroneous variant was adopted by the NU Text et al. Hence the ASV reads simply, “for ye know not the day nor the hour.” The incorrect variant is also found at Matt. 25:13 in the NASB, RSV, NRSV (with a footnote referring to the TR’s reading), ESV, NIV, and TEV.

The pre-Vatican II old Latin Papists followed the variant at Matt. 25:13 in both their Clementine Vulgate and Douay-Rheims Version. Thus the Douay-Rheims reads simply, “because you know not the day nor the hour.” The post-Vatican II new neoAlexandrian Papists were evidently well pleased with the way their predecessors had carved out seven words from the Greek Textus Receptus at Matt. 25:13 i.e., Greek “en (in) e (which) o (the) Yios (Son) tou (-) anthropou (of man) erchetai (he cometh).” Smiling in approval at so audacious an attack on the much hated Protestant’s Received Text, these new neo-Alexandrian Papists decided to do likewise, and cut out from Scripture these seven words in the Roman Catholic RSV, JB, and NJB.

Thus here at Matt. 25:13, both Papist and apostate Protestant united against the Textus Receptus and “cut it with the penknife” (Jer. 36:23) so as to remove these seven Greek words, “en (in) e (which) o (the) Yios (Son) tou (-) anthropou (of man) erchetai (he cometh).” They thought that they had “cast it into the fire,” so that these words were “consumed in the fire” (Jer. 36:23). But they were soon frustrated and frowning. For he who said, “heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matt. 24:35), has Divinely Preserved his Divinely Inspired Bible, and so “the word of the Lord came” to “take” “again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll” (Jer. 36:28). And thus we find in both the Textus Receptus and our King James Bibles, the full Word of God at Matt. 25:13, “Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh” (AV & TR). What? Hast thou not heard of Divine Preservation? Or hath it not been told unto thee? Hear then the words of the Latin motto of the first stage of the Reformation, Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum!¹⁷¹

KJV Textual Technology

The underlined clause is absent in critical Greek texts, which is a problem, for without the clause, the crucial aspect of what the day & hour are specifically about is missing. Christ's return to invoke the advent of the kingdom of heaven is the subject of verses 1-13.* The same concept appears in Matthew 24:44, and a consistent witness to this matter is expected of true scripture, as is the case with the KJV Greek Received Text.

• Again White rationalizes that the clause is borrowed, this time from Matthew 24:44. It is absurd for White to be so confident of this explanation when error in critical texts at Matthew due to carelessness or incompetence of scribes is just as likely. The most likely scenario is removal of the term from Alexandrian texts by dishonest scribes, in view of the overall shorter nature of of these texts and their link to a city noted for promotion of Gnostic dogma contrary to the complete deity of Jesus Christ.

The return of Christ indicated by the underlined clause would trouble Gnostics since they thought Christ fulfilled His mission at the Cross to enable supposed release of hidden knowledge in mankind that would lead to salvation and a release from evils of the human body that they proposed. Scripture plainly teaches that Christ's return relates to the general bodily resurrection of all (e,g. John 5:28,29).

Will Kinney

Matthew 25:13 KJB - Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour WHEREIN THE SON OF MAN COMETH.?

Vatican Versions like the NASB, ESV, NIV, NET, Holman Standard, Jehovah Witness NWT and the Catholic versions all omit these last 6 words. The words are omitted in Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, D, L and a few other manuscripts.

But they are found in the Majority of all remaining Greek manuscripts as well as several Uncial copies like C3rd correction, E, F, G, H, M, S, U, V, Gamma and Omega.

Once again, it is the difference between the Reformation Bibles in all languages and the new Vatican supervised Critical text Versions.

Reading like the KJB and including the words WHEREIN THE SON OF MAN COMETH are the following Bible translations -

Tyndale 1524s, Coverdale 1535, the Great Bible 1540, Matthew’s Bible 1549, the Bishops’ Bible 1568, the Geneva Bible 1587, Beza’s N.T. 1599, Haweis N.T. 1745, Worsley N.T. 1770, Thomson Translation 1808, Young’s 1898, World English Bible, NKJV 1982, Third Millennium bible 1998, the Koster Scriptures 1998 - the hour in which the Son of Adam is coming, Green’s Literal 2000, the Tomson N.T. 2002, the Complete Apostle’s Bible 2005, Jubilee Bible 2010, Wilbur Pickering N.T., Hebrew Names Version, The Resurrection Life N.T. 2005, New Century Version 2005, Easy to Read Version 2006, the Mebust Bible 2007, the English Majority Text Version 2009, Expanded Bible 2011, The Voice 2012, The Amplified Bible 2015, International Children?s Bible 2015, A Faithful Version 2021, New Life Bible 1969 and 2003 editions, Modern English Version 2014, New Matthew Bible 2016, Revised Geneva Bible 2019.

The Hebrew Transliteration Scriptures 2010 - the hour wherein BEN ADAM comes.

And the New International Reader’s Version 2014 has - or the hour that the groom will come.

The Passion Translation says - or hour when the Bridegroom will appear. Then it Footnotes Matthew 25:13 As translated from the Hebrew Matthew.

Foreign Language Bibles that read like the KJB are -

Spanish Las Sagradas Escrituras 1569 - la hora en que el Hijo del hombre ha de venir., 1602 Cipriano de Valera, and the Reina Valera 1960-1995, The Italian Diodati 1649 and La Nuova Diodati 1991 and the Italian Nuova Riveduta 2006 - né l'ora in cui il Figlio dell'uomo verrà», Luther’s German Bible 1545, the German Schlachter Bible 2000 - in welcher der Sohn des Menschen kommen wird., the French Martin 1744, the French Ostervald 1998 and the French Louis Segond 2007 - ni l'heure où le Fils de l'homme viendra., The Hungarian Karoli Bible, Finnish Bible 1776, the Contemporary Bulgarian Bible, the Dutch Statenvertaling bible, the Polish Updated Gdansk Bible 2013, the Romanian Fidela Bible 2015 - ora în care vine Fiul omului., and the Portuguese Easy-to-Read Version 1999 and the Portugues Almeida Revista e Corrigida 2009 - a hora em que o Filho do Homem há de vir., and the Russian Synodal bible.

Again, the choice is between the Reformation Bibles or the Vatican Versions.

Greek

Textus Receptus

• 1514 (Complutensian Polyglot)

Desiderius Erasmus

• 1516 (Erasmus 1st Novum Instrumentum omne)
• 1519 (Erasmus 2nd)
• 1522 (Erasmus 3rd Novum Testamentum omne)
• 1527 (Erasmus 4th)
• 1535 (Erasmus 5th)

Colinæus

• 1534 (Colinæus)

Stephanus (Robert Estienne)

• 1546 (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 1st)
• 1549 (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 2nd)
• 1550 Γρηγορεῖτε οὖν ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε τὴν ἡμέραν οὐδὲ τὴν ὥραν ἐν ᾗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 3rd - Editio Regia)
• 1551 Γρηγορεῖτε οὖν ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε τὴν ἡμέραν οὐδὲ τὴν ὥραν ἐν ᾗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται (Robert Estienne (Stephanus) 4th)

Theodore Beza

• 1565 (Beza 1st)
• 1565 (Beza Octavo 1st)
• 1567 (Beza Octavo 2nd)
• 1580 (Beza Octavo 3rd)
• 1582 (Beza 2nd)
• 1589 (Beza 3rd)
• 1590 (Beza Octavo 4th)
• 1598 Γρηγορεῖτε οὖν, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε τὴν ἡμέραν, οὐδὲ τὴν ὥραν ἐν ᾗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται. (Beza 4th)

See Also Matthew 25:13 Beza 1598 (Beza)

• 1604 (Beza Octavo 5th)

Elzevir

• 1624 (Elzevir)
• 1633 (Elzevir)
• 1641 (Elzevir)

Scholz

• 1841 (Scholz)

Scrivener

• 1894 γρηγορεῖτε οὖν, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε τὴν ἡμέραν οὐδὲ τὴν ὥραν, ἐν ᾗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται.

Other Greek

• 1857 (Tregelles' Greek New Testament)
• 1872 γρηγορεῖτε οὖν, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε τὴν ἡμέραν οὐδὲ τὴν ὥραν. (Tischendorf 8th Ed.)
• 1881 Γρηγορεῖτε οὖν, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε τὴν ἡμέραν οὐδὲ τὴν ὥραν. (Westcott & Hort)
• 1904 γρηγορεῖτε οὖν, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε τὴν ἡμέραν οὐδὲ τὴν ὥραν ἐν ᾗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται. (Greek orthodox Church)
• 1904 Γρηγορεῖτε οὖν, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδατε τὴν ἡμέραν οὐδὲ τὴν ὥραν. (Nestle)

Anglo Saxon Translations

• 1000 (Anglo-Saxon Gospels Manuscript 140, Corpus Christi College by Aelfric)

• 1200 (Anglo-Saxon Gospels Hatton Manuscript 38, Bodleian Library by unknown author)

English Translations

• 1380 (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
• 1395 Therfor wake ye, for ye witen not the dai ne the our. (Wyclif's Bible by John Wycliffe)
• 1534 Watche therefore: for ye knowe nether the daye nor yet the houre when the sonne of man shall come. (Tyndale Bible by William Tyndale)
• 1535 Watch ye therfore, for ye knowe nether the daye ner yet the houre, whan ye sonne of man shal come. (Coverdale Bible)
• 1539 (Great Bible First Edition - Miles Coverdale)
• 1540 Watche therfore: for ye knowe nether the daye nor yet the houre wherin the sonne of man shall come. (Great Bible Second Edition - Miles Coverdale)
• 1549 watche therfore: for ye knowe neither the daye nor yet the houre when the sonne of man shall come. (Matthew's Bible - John Rogers)
• 1557 (Geneva 1557) by William Whittingham
• 1560
• 1568 Watch therfore, for ye knowe neither the day, nor yet the houre, wherin the sonne of man shall come. (Bishop's Bible First Edition)
• 1572 (Bishop's Bible)
• 1582 (Rheims 1582)
• 1587 Watch therfore: for ye know neither the day, nor the houre, when the sonne of man will come. (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
• 1599 (Geneva Bible) by William Whittingham
• 1611 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day, nor the houre, wherein the Sonne of man commeth. (King James Version)
• 1729 watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour. (Mace New Testament)
• 1745 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour. (Mr. Whiston's Primitive New Testament)
• 1762 (King James Version)
• 1769 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. (King James Version - Benjamin Blayney)
• 1770 Watch therefore, for ye know not the day, nor the season in which the Son of man cometh. (Worsley Version by John Worsley)
• 1790 Watch therefore: for ye know not the day nor the hour. (Wesley Version by John Wesley)
• 1795 Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour in which the Son of man cometh. (A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by Thomas Haweis)
• 1833 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man cometh. (Webster Version - by Noah Webster)
• 1835 Watch, therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour. (Living Oracles by Alexander Campbell)
• 1849 Be wakeful therefore, for you know not that day nor the hour. (Etheridge Translation by John Etheridge)
• 1850 (King James Version by Committee)
• 1851 (Murdock Translation)
• 1855 Calvin Bible by the Calvin Translation Society
• 1858 Watch, therefore, for you know not the day nor the hour. (The New Testament Translated from the Original Greek by Leicester Sawyer)
• 1865 Watch you therefore, because not you know the day, nor the hour. (The Emphatic Diaglott by Benjamin Wilson)
• 1865 Watch, therefore; because ye know not the day, nor the hour! (The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1865 by American Bible Union)
• 1869 Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour. (Noyes Translation by George Noyes)
• 1873 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. (King James Version) by Frederick Scrivener)
• 1885 Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour. (Revised Version also called English Revised Version - Charles Ellicott editor)
• 1890 Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour. (Darby Version 1890 by John Darby)
• 1898 `Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come. (Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young)
• 1901 Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour. (American Standard Version - Philip Schaff)
• 1902 Be watching, therefore, because ye know, neither the day nor the hour. (The Emphasised Bible Rotherham Version)
• 1902 Watch therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour. (Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek by William Godbey)
• 1904 Watch, therefore, because ye know not the day, nor the hour! (The New Testament: Revised and Translated by Adolphus Worrell)
• 1904 Therefore watch, since you know neither the Day nor the Hour. (Twentieth Century New Testament by Ernest Malan and Mary Higgs)
• 1911 (Syrus Scofield)
• 1912 "Keep awake therefore; for you know neither the day nor the hour. (Weymouth New Testament)
• 1918 Watch therefore, for you know not the day nor the hour. (The New Testament Translated from the Sinaitic Manuscript by Henry Anderson)
• 1923 (Edgar Goodspeed)
• 1982 (New King James Version) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
• 1984 (New International Version)(NIV) Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
• 1995 (New American Standard Bible) NASB (©1995)
• 1999 (American King James Version)AKJV
• 2000 (King James 2000 Bible©)n
• 2005 (Today’s New International Version)
• (BBE)
• 2009 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)(HCSB) Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
• (21st Century King James Version) Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
• (Common English Bible) Copyright © 2011 by Common English Bible
• (GOD’S WORD Translation)(GW) Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
• (Contemporary English Version)(CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society
• (New Living Translation)(NLT) Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation.
• (Amplified Bible) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
• (The Message) (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
• (New International Reader's Version) (NIRV) Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998, 2014 by Biblica, Inc.®.
• (Wycliffe New Testament)

Foreign Language Versions

See also Bible translations into Afrikaans

Afrikaans

• 1933 (Ta Biblia Ta Logia - J. D. du Toit, E. E. van Rooyen, J. D. Kestell, H. C. M. Fourie, and BB Keet
• 1953
• 1982 Paraphrase - Die Lewende Bybel, Christelike Uitgewersmaatskappy (CUM)
• 1982 South African Bible Society - E. P. Groenewald, A. H. van Zyl, P. A. Verhoef, J. L. Helberg, and W. Kempen
• 1983 © Bybelgenootskap van Suid Afrika
• 2001 The Nuwe Wêreld-vertaling van die Heilige Skrif is an Afrikaans translation of the 1984 English translation of the Bible by the Watchtower Society.
• 2002 Die Boodskap
• 2002 DieBybel@Kinders.co.za - Gert Prinsloo, Phil Botha, Willem Boshoff, Hennie Stander, Dirk Human, Stephan Joubert, and Jan van der Watt.
• 2006 The Nuwe Lewende Vertaling (literally "New Living Translation")
• 2008 Bybel vir Almal - South African Bible Society, Bart Oberholzer, Bernard Combrink, Hermie van Zyl, Francois Tolmie, Christo van der Merwe, Rocco Hough en Elmine Roux.
• 2014 Direct Translation, South African Bible Society
• 2014 Afrikaans Standard Version, CUM Books

Akan

Albabian

Amuzgo de Guerrero

• 1973 Amuzgo de Guerrero (AMU) Copyright © 1973, 1999 by La Liga Biblica
• 1999

Armenian

Arabic

• 1516
• 1591
• 1616
• 1622
• 1671 Biblia Arabica. de propaganda fide. Arabic and Latin Bible printed in Rome by Abraham Ecchellensis and Louis Maracci
• فاسهروا اذا لانكم لا تعرفون اليوم ولا الساعة التي يأتي فيها ابن الانسان (Arabic Smith & Van Dyke)
• 1988 Arabic Life Application Bible (ALAB) Copyright © 1988 by Biblica
• 2009 Arabic Bible: Easy-to-Read Version (ERV-AR) Copyright © 2009 by World Bible Translation Center

Aramaic/Syriac

• (Aramaic Peshitta)

Basque

• 1571 Veilla eçaçue bada: ecen eztaquiçue guiçonaren Semea ethorriren den eguna ez orena.

Bulgarian

• 1940 (1940 Bulgarian Bible)
• (Матей 25:13) (Bulgarian Bible)

Cherokee

• 1860 Cherokee New Testament (CHR)

Chinese

• 1 (Chinese Union Version (Simplified))
• 1 (Chinese Union Version (Traditional))
• 25:13 (Chinese King James Version)

Croatian

Czech

• 1613

Danish

Dutch

• 1619

Esperanto

Finnish

• 1619
• 1938

French

• Veillez donc; car vous ne savez ni le jour ni l'heure. (French Darby)
• 1744 Veillez donc; car vous ne savez ni le jour ni l'heure en laquelle le Fils de l'homme viendra. (Martin 1744)
• 1744 (Ostervald 1744)
• 1864 (Augustin Crampon)
• 1910
• 2006 (King James Française)

German

• 1545 (Luther 1545)
• 1871 (Elberfelder 1871)
• 1912 Darum wachet; denn ihr wisset weder Tag noch Stunde, in welcher des Menschen Sohn kommen wird. (Luther 1912)

Greek

• 1904 (Greek Orthodox (B. Antoniades))
• Modern Greek (Trinitarian Bible Society)

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

• 1649 Vegliate adunque, poichè non sapete nè il giorno, nè l’ora, che il Figliuol dell’uomo verrà. (Giovanni Diodati Bible 1649)
• 1927 Vegliate dunque, perché non sapete né il giorno né l’ora. (Riveduta Bible 1927)

Japanese

• 1928 (Naoji Nagai)

Kabyle

Khmer

• 1928

Latin

• vigilate itaque quia nescitis diem neque horam Latin Vulgate
• 1527 (Erasmus 1527)
• 1527 (Erasmus Vulgate 1527)
• 1565 (Beza)
• 1598 (Beza)

Latvian

Maori

• 1833
• 1837
• 1858
• 1868 (Formal translation based on the Greek 'Received Text': Trinitarian Bible Society)
• 1833
• 1952

Norwegian

• 1930

Pidgin

• 1996 (Pidgin King Jems)

Portugese

Potawatomi

• 1833 (Potawatomi Matthew and Acts)

Romainian

• 1551 (Slavic-Romanian Gospel)
• 1561 (Coresi's Gospel)
• 1570 (The Braşov Psalm Book) Psalms Only
• 1582 (Palia from Orăştie)
• 1648 (The New Testament of Alba Iulia)
• 1688 (Biblia de la Bucureşti - Bucharest Bible)
• 1911 (Nitzulescu - British and Foreign Bible Society)
• 1921 (Cornilescu)
• 1924 (Cornilescu - British and Foreign Bible Society)
• 1989 (Gute Botschaft Verlag)
• 2010 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba româna - Textus Receptus Based)
• 2013 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba română - based upon the Textus Receptus / King James Version)
• 2014 (Biblia Traducerea Fidela în limba română - based upon the Textus Receptus / King James Version)
• 2014 (Cornilescu 90th anniversary definitive edition - British and Foreign Bible Society)

Russian

• 1876 Итак, бодрствуйте, потому что не знаете ни дня, ничаса, в который приидет Сын Человеческий. Russian Synodal Version
• Phonetically:

Sanskrit

• 1851

Shur

Spanish

See Also Bible translations (Spanish)

• 1543 (Francisco de Enzinas New Testament)
• 1556 (Juan Perez de Pineda New Testament and book of Psalms)
• 1569 (Sagradas Escrituras)
• 1814 Valera Revision
• 1817 Valera Revision
• 1831 Valera Revision
• 1858 Reina Valera
• 1862 Valera Revision
• 1865 Valera Revision (American Bible Society Revisión)
• 1869 Valera Revision
• 1909 (Reina-Valera) Antigua Spanish Bible
• 1960 Versión Reina-Valera (Eugene Nida )
• 1987 Translation from English. Publisher: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.
• 1994 Nuevo Testamento versión Recobro
• 1997 (La Biblia de las Américas) (©1997)
• 1999 Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)
• 2002 (1602 Purificada)
• 2009 Santa Biblia: Reina-Valera
• 1 (Reina Valera Gómez)

Swahili

• Kisha Yesu akasema, "Kesheni basi, kwa maana hamjui siku wala saa.

Swedish

• 1917 Vaken fördenskull; ty I veten icke dagen, ej heller stunden. (Swedish - Svenska 1917)

Tagalog

• 1905 Mangagpuyat nga kayo, sapagka't hindi ninyo nalalaman ang araw ni ang oras. (Ang Dating Biblia 1905)

Thai

(Thai KJV)

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

• 1878 (Hindustani Roman Script)
• 1938 (Urdu Revised Version. British and Foreign Bible Society, 1938)
• 2016 (Urdu Bible)

Vietnamese

• 1934 Vậy, hãy tỉnh thức, vì các ngươi không biết ngày, cũng không biết giờ. (Ma-thi-ô 25:13 Vietnamese Bible) (VIET)

Welsh

• 1567 (William Salesbury, printed in 1567 by Humphrey Toy)
• 1588 (William Morgan)
• 1620 (William Morgan)
• 1824
• 1988 (New Welsh Bible)
• 2004
• 2011 (beibl.net 2011 by Arfon Jones)

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